This Cartoon was Rejected 6 Years ago for being Unfair and Alarmist

2016 was worse for America than 9/11.
- Yes. Trump's failure during Covid was killing a 9/11's worth of Americans weekly.
  
  give 'em some time. it's still early in the first quarter and he's still getting warmed up
  
  Republicans preventing the US from joining the first world probably kills more than that every week.
  
  And yet somehow there are still far more people in the USA than there were before COVID struck. What gives?
- Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence
  
  Karl fucking Rove
- ~~Never Forget~~ We Forgor
- Retrospectively? Would give someone’s left nut for 2016 murca and not fucking bullshit 2025 fucking Russia (the one between Maine/Alaska/Hawaii/Florida under the orange thumb)
  Hope your kids never wanted to ski outdoors Heritage Foundation!

Mr. President, a second presidency just hit the south tower.
- They’re building a third tower now

Needs an update:
Now of course the "Rule of Law" is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one...

The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting
- I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future
  Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra's curse. At least for a little bit
  
  Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
- There are plenty of people overreacting, so stop overreacting about no overreaction /s

Just need a 2nd plane labelled "republican traitor filth".
- I don't know why you would write the same term 3 times.
- They could be labeled trump 2024 and trump 2028

I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.
- Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!

I do think that Trump's first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer "setting precedence", but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.
- Kick a narcissist out of your home and tell them you don’t want them anymore, and if they manage to get back in, you won’t ever forget you crossed them.
  
  The media called his second run a "revenge tour", and they weren't fucking wrong. Trump's only objective this time around is to stick it to the people who held him back the first time. First his old cabinet, then career civil servants, then judges, and eventually, the rest of us.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/murphycartoons.bsky.social/post/3lnlwmypsgk2d

It was rejected for being extremely distasteful.
It's not wrong, but there's no tie in to the administration that makes the image need to be the scene of thousands of people murdered by terrorists.
- Trump's terrible response to COVID19 resulted in a daily thousand people dead for nearly three years, 10,000 a week at it's peak, almost a million in total.
  His admin has also been accused many times of using terror tactics.
  I think 20 years is long enough that political cartoonists can make 9/11 similes without worrying too much about pearl clutching.
  
  Americans aren't very good at history, but most of them can at least keep this millennium straight...
- I took the analogy not as "Trump equals terrorism and death" but that Trump's attack on the rule of law and the Constitution is at least as big of a threat and should be met with an equally vigorous response by a united United States. The cartoonist could have done it in the style of the Pearl Harbor attack and it would have achieved the same metaphor, though probably wouldn't have had the same gut-punch effect.
  Point is it should be a lightning rod for America to act. Sad that it is not.
  Also, not condoning the wars that followed 9/11 and the Patriot act and all of the other bullshit we got because of it.
- Thousands of people are on the verge of being murdered/deported by terrorists now, seems like a fair comparison to me.
- How much blood will be on their hands before this is over. I totally get this image.
- He's killed way more than 911
- Trump and his cult are terrorists though

It's kinda tasteless and doesn't really say anything.
I'd have rejected it 6 years ago for not being good
- Doesn’t say anything? It clearly implies that Trump’s actions are deliberately trying to sabotage US stability and democracy.
  
  If this guy could read he would be very upset with you
  
  Political cartoons are supposed to be clever and this is not. "9/11 was really bad. Trump is also really bad." Wow... Never thought about it like that...
  And it's in bad taste, using 9/11 almost as a punchline. Replace the twin towers with any tragedy and it's the same "joke." How about a cartoon in Uvalde? The kids can be wearing that text on their shirts.
  Agreeing with the message doesn't blind me to how r/im14andthisisdeep this is. It's just not a clever cartoon.